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Article #2956Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:36
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:36
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In article <nevin-2001960346340001@150.135.1.79>, Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote: >In article <4dplap$qr3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi >Krishna Swamy) wrote: > >> > Sigh... Explain to me how your damn Mac is going to connect to >> > the stinking URL when you are connected to the Internet via >> > a terminal program running through a 2400 baud modem? Yes, I >> > am REALLY waiting to know how the Mac manages to connect >> > to the URL. > >> No, I already know the answer. It is impossible for it to work >> in my situation. > >Care to explain to the rest of us why it won't work? Have you ever >actually tried it, or is this just some made-up argument based on the way >you think Macs work? The only thing I've noticed on my Mac when I've had >a slower modem (9600 baud until last year on my main machine) is that it >takes longer to download the page. Because you need to be connected through SLIP/PPP or something similar and I am not? Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!rkswamy From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 20 Jan 1996 13:36:40 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Message-ID: <4dqr58$tdf@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <davis-1901962023410001@pppsb15.itg.ti.com> <4dplap$qr3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <nevin-2001960346340001@150.135.1.79> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc04du.unity.ncsu.edu